Using Hook with Drafts

Drafts is a popular document capture and editing tool by Agile Tortoise.

Hook enables you to link Drafts documents to and from anything that is also linkable.

Copy Link, Copy Markdown Link and Hook to Copied Link

By default, Hook’s Copy Link and Copy Markdown Link in Drafts return links of the form drafts5://. You can paste those links anywhere. You can even use them on your iPad or iPhone.

Hook to New > Drafts

You can use the Hook to New command to create a new Drafts item that is hooked (bidirectionally linked) to the current resource.

The built-in Hook to New > Drafts script requires the latest version of Drafts .

If you are using an earlier version of Drafts that does not have sufficient automation for Hook’s current Hook to New implementation (which uses x-callback-url), you may use this in Hook > Preferences > Script Editor tab :

tell application "Drafts" to activate
set the clipboard to "$title"
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Drafts"
    click menu item "New with Clipboard" of menu 1 of menu bar item "File" of menu bar 1
end tell

--without this weird second activation Drafts won't actually create the new note
tell application "Drafts" to activate

set the clipboard to ""
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Drafts"
    click menu item "Link" of menu 1 of menu item "Copy" of menu 1 of menu bar item "File" of menu bar 1
end tell

delay 0.2
get (the clipboard)

“Hook” tag to Drafts items

When you create a new Drafts document using Hook to New, Hook will apply a “Hook” tag to it. That allows you — on Mac, iPhone or iPad — to search for every task or project that you’ve created with Hook to New. Handy!

This is an introductory feature that will be revisited. Currently these tags are not added on linking, nor are they deleted automatically.

If you would like the tag name to be something different, From Hook > Preferences > Script Editor tab > Drafts > New Item tab script, just change

Tags:{"Hook"}

to use whatever “tagName” you’d like.

If you don’t like this feature, just delete :

Tags:{"Hook"}

from that script.

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Search for Drafts Hook-bookmarks

To find Drafts items you’ve processed with Hook, simply

invoke Hook
enter search mode (with ⌘F or a click)
type: url:drafts5 and hit the return key

Your Drafts bookmarks will show up in the search results.

Get Address with x-callback-url

If you are a Hook Pro user who wants to use Hook 2.2.1 with the Drafts app in multiple languages using Draft’s x-callback-url scheme, here’s a Get Address script you can use. As of 2021-01-23, it has only been qualified for macOS Big Sur (it might work on macOS 10.15 too).

set callbackURL to "hook://x-callback-url/setCurrentNode"

set myURL to "drafts://x-callback-url/getCurrentDraft?" & "&x-success=" & callbackURL

set myScript to "open '" & myURL & "'"

do shell script myScript
return callbackURL

About this page

Page last updated for Hook 2.1 scripts version 142.